Solo exhibitions

1967	University of Sussex catalogue
1971	Angela Flowers Gallery, London, catalogue
1972	Bear Lane Gallery, Oxford
1974	Gallery Del Cavallino, Venice
1974	Salone L'Annunciata, Milan
1975	The ICA, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
1976	Gallery Bologna Due Bologna, Italy
1976	Gallery Nouvelle Image The Hague, Holland
1979	Rijkscentrum Hoger Brussels, Belguim
1979	Poole Fine Art 10'79 Basle International Art Fair, Switzerland
1980	Atelier De Recherche Esthetique Caen, France
1981	Gallerie Nouvelle Image The Hague, Holland
1982	Gallery Takagi Nagoya, Japan
1985	University of Exeter
1988	Printworks Gallery Chicago, USA
1989	Printworks Gallery Chicago, USA
1996	Rijkscentrum Hoger, Brusselles
1998	University Of Wales, Retrospective, Aberwystwyth, catalogue
1999	Berni Gallery, Jersey Arts Centre, Retrospective, catalogue
1999	Gallery M, Flowers East London
2008	Richard Allen: A Retrospective Exhibition, Offer Waterman & Co, London from 16 April - 10 May

Group exhibitions

1964	Seven Sixty Four, MacRoberts & Tunnard Gallery London catalogue
1965	Summer Exhibition, Redfern Gallery London
1965	John Moores Liverpool Exhibition
1965	Contrasts, MacRoberts & Tunnard Gallery London
1965	Jeune Peinture Angleise, Gallery Motte Geneva Switzerland
1966	Movements, Manchester City Art Gallery
1966	Movements, Sheffield University
1966	Kenetic Art, The Herbert Gallery Coventry
1966	Northern Ireland Arts Council Exhibition Belfast (prizewinner)
1966	Ten Sixty Six, MacRoberts & Tunnard Gallery London, catalogue
1967	Vincent Price Gallery Chicago
1967	Kinetic Art Northern Ireland Arts Festival
1967	Ritchie Hendricks Gallery Belfaast
1967	Kinetic Art Ulster Museum
1967	The Aarteder International Grahphics Exhibition Bilbao Spain
1968	British Painting, ICA, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London and touring USA
1968	Artists & Architecture, The Building Centre London
1968	Midland Group Gallery Players Nottingham Exhibition
1968	The First British Print Biennale Cartwright Museum Bradford
1968	Bradford City Art Gallery
1968	John Moores Liverpool Exhibition
1969	The Gardener Arts Centre University of Sussex (inaugural exhibition)
1969	British Movement The Onasch Gallery Berlin
1969	Gelsenkirchen Museum British Movements
1969	British Prints Nantenshi Gallery Tokyo
1971	Art Spectrum Arts Council of Great Britain London
1971	Arnolfini Gallery Bristol, Matrix
1971	Welsh Arts Council Gallery Matrix Exhibition
1971	Gulbenkien Theatre Gallery University of Kent
1971	Studio La Citta Verona Italy
1972-1974.	Systems Touring Exhibition Arts Council of Great Britain - public galleries in Manchester Sheffield Billingham Newcastle Birmingham Leicester Southampton Newport and Oxford
1972	Lucy Milton Gallery London, Systems Drawings
1972	London Movements Lucy Milton Gallery London
1972	Systems Exhibiton Whitechapel Gallery London
1972	Gallery AS Barcelona Spain British Artists
1972	Gallery Blok, Hanover Germany
1973	Royal College of Art Gulbenkien Gallery Staff Exhibition
1973	Systems 11, Design International Conference, Polytechnic of Central London
1973	Brooks Goldberger Gallery Philadelphia USA
1974	The Hayward Gallery London, British Painting '74,
1976	The AIR Gallery London, Fundamental Painting
1977	British Painting 1952-1977 The Royal Academy of Art London
1978	British Graphics ICA London
1978	Circle and Square House Gallery London
1978	Gardener Arts Centre University of Sussex, Rational Practice
1979	Arte e Altro Salone L'Annunciata Milan Italy
1979	The Musuem of St Lambert Quebec Canada
1979	The National Musuem, Messina Sicily
1979	The Alvar Aalto Musuem Jyvaskla Finland
1979	The Northern Museum Vaasa Finland
1980	The Brazilian Embassy London, British Artists
1980	Museum of Modern Art Ibiza Spain, Ibizagraphica '80
1980	The Amos Anderson Museum Helsinki
1980	The Eighth International Print Biennale Cracow Poland
1981	Museum Of Modern Art Rio de Janeiro Brazil Johannesburg Art Gallery South Africa
1981	Durban Art Gallery South Africa
1981	Listowel International Print Biennale Listowel Ireland
1982	Angela Flowers Gallery, London, 80 Prints by Modern Masters
1982	The Aarteder International Grahphics Exhibition Bilbao Spain
1982	The Mutare Museum Mutare Zimbabwe
1984	The Mudawaska Musuem Edmunton Canada
1984	Centre Culturel De Shawingen Quebec Canada
1984	York University Gallery Toronto Canada
1985	The university Art Gallery St Johns Newfoundland Canada
1985	10 Bis Grotemarket Aalst Belgium
1986	The Bahrain Arts Society Bahrain Persian Gulf
1987	New Graphics Printworks Chicago USA
1987	Artists Choice Victoria & Albert Museum London
1994	Three abstract Painters Hereford art Gallery
1996	Abstract Art II Angela Flowers Gallery London
1997 - 1998	Robert Horne Touring Exhibition Of Prints
2008	Southampton Art gallery, A Rational Aesthetic: The Systems Group and Associated Artists, 11 January - 30 March

Public collections

The Arts Council of Great Britain
The Government Art Collection
The British Council
Ferens Art Gallery Kingston
The Ministry of the Enviornment London
Oxfordshire Educaiton Authority
General Motors
Chase Manhattan Bank
Southampton Musuem & Art Gallery
Jersey Museum
The University of Wales
Croydon Edcuation Deprtment
The Musuem of Modern Art Rio de Janeiro
The Gemeent Musuem Arnham Holland
The Ministry of Culture Belguim
The National Academy of Art, New Delhi
The Musuem of Modern Art, Skopje
The Peter Stuvysant Foundation
Gallery Motte Geneva
Fondazione Pagani, Milan
Jackonville Musuem of Modern Art, Florida
The Renesseler Institute New York
Hassalt Musuem Belgium
The University of Indiana USA
The Bloomfield Art Association Michigan
The Ruhr Regional Planning Authority Germany
The Musuem of Modern Art, Lodz Poland
The Sears-Vincent Price Gallery Chicago
The Frito-Lay Coporpattion Dallas USA
Lake Shore Bank Chicago USA
Nieman Marcus Pennsylvania USA
The Sterling Konez Corporation, New York
The Atlantic Richfield Corporation, New York
The Michael Rees Hospital, Chicago

Teaching, Residencies, Visiting Lectureships

1962 - 70	Croydon College of Art
1967	University of Sussex, Artist in Residence,
1968 - 70	70 Exhibition consultant for the Polytechnic of Central London (now the University of Westminister), established the Concourse Gallery, Regent Street, London and the Regent Street Gallery, London. Part time teaching Winchester School of Art
1970 - 71	Part time teaching Hornsey School of Art
1971 - 73	Brighton College of Art, painting
1973 - 74	London College of Printing, print making, silk screen and etching
1996	Lowick House, Cumbria, residency in Printmaking
	Also Regular Visiting Tutor at Colleges of Art in the UK including: Royal College of Art Slade School of Fine Art St Martins School of Art University of Reading University Of Wales Abberystwyth

Biography

1933	Born and grew up in Worcester, UK. Father involved in farming and horse training and worked for the Ministry of Agriculture. Mothers family, market gardeners. Went to school in Worcester during the war. No art education at school but did make "desperate attempts" at what he thought was "Modern Art", influenced by analytical cubist works by Picasso and Gris in art encyclopedias.
1950-1952	Influenced by his father’s involvement in agriculture, he attended the Shropshire Institute of Agriculture where he studied for a National Diploma in Agricultural Engineering. The Agricultural College shared a building with Worcester School of Art. Read the meaning of Art by Sir Herbert Read which helped him to begin to understand the meaning of form, space, movement and line.
1952 – 1954	national service, which coincided with the Korean War, during which he saw active service as a tank engineer. Traveled in North and South Korea and Japan.
1954 - 1957	worked and studied part time for A levels and NDD courses. Casual attendance at Worcester College of Art where he met Geoffrey Whiting and spent time with him assisting with filling his kiln.
1957 - 1960	Attended Bath Academy of Art aged 24. Enthusiastically embraced the unconventional teaching at Bath at that time. He quickly established a strong disposition towards abstraction as a form of painting. Taught by Adrian Heath, Martin Froy, Anthony Fry, Howard Hodgkin, Malcolm Hughes, Philip Sutton, Gillian Ayres, William Scott, Jack Smith, John Earnest and Robyn Denny. In his last year at Bath he was commissioned to make a 15 x 9 foot abstract mosaic for a college in Wiltshire. The first signs of grids and blocks of colour within a grid construction began to appear in his work at this time.
1960-1961	Won an Italian Government Scholarship in Art to study mosaic in Ravenna. Here he visited the commercial mosaic studios and photographed the building site hoardings which inspired the Pop Art poster collages he went on to make the next year.
1961-1962	Married fellow Bath Academy of Art student Eve Laurens. Worked part time painting Lambs Navy Rum figures in a studio with Mark Vaux and Quentin Crisp. Part time teaching. Made the Pop Poster collages as a "homage to Pop Art"
1962	Started work at Croydon College of Art, where he was to teach for the next 8 years. Colleagues at Croydon included John Hoyland, Alan Jones, Bridget Riley, Bruce McLean, David Leveret, Barry Fantoni and Michael Simpson.
1964 – 1966	Started working on the Op Art paintings, exhibiting with Bridget Riley, Michael Kidner, Geoffrey Steele, Fred Carver and Peter Sedgely at Mc Roberts & Tunnard Gallery
1966	Commonwealth Scholar (Art and Architecture). Traveled extensively in India.
1967	Introduced moiré /interferometry to his work, experimenting with line and colour, optical effects and the relationship between art and science. Mediums included resist line drawing and wash over with fast acid dyes. Also worked on Op Art prints at this time. First solo exhibition, University of Sussex.
1968	Started work on the two colour stripe acrylic paintings, still using moiré and painting on a very large scale. Starts to be influenced by US painters such as Noland, Stella, and Newman. The two colour stripe paintings installed at Match Shed, London. One man show with Angela Flowers, London.
1971	Invited by Malcolm Hughes to join Matrix, a group of artists including Michael Kidner, Geofrey Steele, John Earnest and Jean Spencer. The Matrix Exhibition opened at the Arnolfini Gallery in 1971 and led to the Sytems Exhibition curated by Nicolas Serota which opened at the Whitechapel gallery in 1972.
1972	Returned to drawing, making large scale charcoal works on canvas, washed and fixed with cellulose acetate. These were based on the grid and cross, often using the resist line of his earlier optical work
1974	Included in the British Painting Exhibition at the Hayward gallery
1975	Was stimulated by the exhibition "Fundamental Painting / Fundamentele Schilderkunst" mounted at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and was later included in the Fundamental Painting exhibition at the Air Gallery, London, curated by Rini Dipel of the Stedeliilk Museum. Solo exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.
1975-1991	In 1977 he moved to Jersey in the Channel Islands. He continued working on charcoal drawings on canvas and paper and showing mainly in Holland, Belgium, Italy, France, Japan and the USA.
1991-1999	Returned to England. After nearly two decades of working without colour he started what was to become the series of "white paintings" which would be his last works. They were exhibited at the RHOK gallery, Brussels in 1996, at the Retrospective Exhibition of his work at University of Wales School of Art Gallery, Aberystwyth and at Flowers East in 1999 In 1997 his wife Eve was diagnosed with cancer and died within several months. Soon after he was diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease. Determined to continue working he explored working with specially adapted computer software but was unable to make any progress due to the rapid onset of the disease. He died in February 1999.

Sub-sections

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Public collections

Teaching, Residencies, Visiting Lectureships

Biography